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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Oh, I do remember I was thinking like this in high school, "live through the moment, don't take pictures". I didn't account for my memory being shot even in my 30s. I would love to have a couple of photos or videos of so
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Yeah, the added flat fifth really isn't a Western European thing, that's what made it different, cool and appealing. Also the shuffle rhythm. But if you listen to a lot of blues, play a lot of it, play with other blues players, et
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
I hate going into semantics like this, but I guess there's no other way. Music - rhythm, harmony and melody - has patterns. Those patterns can be described / named. There are systems to also write them down. When you mention readi
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
If you want a song with all majors, where the full chords are played on the main instrument, first thing that comes to mind is Eno's Golden Hours ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxyg3sP03Cs ). For parts of songs, maybe
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Yeah, that's definitely 'the' Kurt thing, vocal melody completing power chords. I do hate how he (and the whole generation, and some of the punks before him + no wave crowd as well) pretended that they didn't know any mu
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
A common thing w/ Nirvana songs is that Kurt plays power chords, and then has the thirds (+ other tones) in the vocal melody. But also, it was just a (counter-) cultural thing to feign lack of music theory knowledge or practice at the
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Don't underestimate investors' intelligence. Most of the RTO reasons barely make sense for investors investing in startups, but may for established companies. Things like this RTO push rarely happen without a reason. Off the top o
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
This is actually excellent news. A startup can now afford hiring better talent at lower costs, because people value remote work so much. Remote doesn't necessarily mean working from home. There are people in situations (having babies &
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Nope, the issue is still there, and not just for Postgres. You need `hvac` to use Hashicorp Vault-related stuff, for example. There's a decent workaround, though, if you don't mind managing your Ansible install with `pipx` instead
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Ansible: Pure (only in its) pragmatism(andrejradovic.com)
16 points by cue_the_strings 1y ago|8 comments
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
That's the point, people need to be poor and desperate enough to fight a (world) war.
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
There's a huge amount of weapons hidden away in attics, even after several campaigns to get rid of illegal weapons, no questions asked. There's also a huge amount of it in the region (Montenegro, Bosnia). I used to live first in S
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I will always have more respect for prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers and thieves than people working in "defense". Even an exceptionally violent and prolific gangster could never come close to contributing to the suffering of as m
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I think such discounts are not as much because of the data, they're a way to tier your customers, similar to coupons. That way you both get to take the full price from people whose time is expensive enough that they won't bother w
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I rarely do. Working in the automotive industry (not Bosch, though) made me dislike cars even more than I did before, all the safety stuff (AUTOSAR, MISRA, ...) is theater.
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I really distrust Bosch, knowing how underpaid their engineers are.
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
This is really not a UK-only thing, it's a thing everywhere. The US has some defense jobs that pay well (but are immoral IMO), and there are some gambling-machine related jobs that pay well, but otherwise engineering pays really poorly
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I'm completely unfamiliar with Marshall hi-fi equipment (that's kind of recent?), but their guitar amps are not really known for being inherently scooped. At least until the mid 70s, maybe even the JCM800 era, Marshalls were known
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
Not all of Europe. I live in Ljubljana, Slovenia (the capital), and apart from 3 gas stations and 1 pharmacy, literally nothing works at night (2 or 3 nightclubs on the weekends). And people don't find it odd or have any significant di
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
It definitely does; my point is that sanctions aren't very granular (essentially like surgery with a spade), and make life miserable for a whole bunch of people and companies that you didn't want to sanction. Of course, you inflic
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
Bear in mind that most of the time, sanctions not only prevent you from doing business with the sanctioned entity, but also with any other entity that's doing business with them.
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
Despite the cycling infrastructure being second to none, I hated my time cycling in Amsterdam earlier this year. The drivers (taxis in particular) are just terrible, very violent, at least in the city center. Having a lot of cycling paths t
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I would expect them to prevent Google from fielding a browser (any browser, not just Chrome) for some time (several years).
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
In this thread: Chrome and Chrome-related employees of Google worrying about their future compensation under a smaller company. Don't worry, I'm sure that Chrome / Chromium will be picked up by several big players together, M
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I have yet to find a font that works better than Bloomberg Fixed Unicode N. It's simply perfect: easy on the eyes, unassuming, discernable characters.
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
Them being a totalitarian dictatorship doesn't necessarily mean they're stupid. I doubt they would risk their economy just because of Taiwan. They may go after it at some point in the future when the odds are in their favor (becau
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
I'm under the impression that time is actually working for China and that they don't really require a war; they'll catch up economically soon enough (5-10y) that a war doesn't benefit them at all, and only the US would b
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
This couldn't be farther from the truth. Not only will a Rust rewrite take 5-20x longer, you'll also be supporting 2 versions (C++ and Rust) for a long time, while doing the rewrite and migration, and that will eat up a lot of dev
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
No way, DK and NO aren't that big, and you learn about empty sets in HS in most of the world. I'd wager there are currently more Indian high schoolers than people in DK/NO.
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by cue_the_strings 2y ago
Of all the tech companies in the US, Intel is the most likely to be bailed out by the government, no questions asked. Poor business? Gimme a break. They could exterminate a smaller ~~African~~ scratch that, Central or South American country

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